As expected, TEPCO has officially retired reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The reactors, which were offline at the time of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and were undamaged, will now become research facilities to explore decommissioning technologies which can then be used on the other four, damaged reactors. With the closure of reactors 5 and 6, Japan now has 48 commercial nuclear reactors, all of which are currently idle.

Yoichi Masuzoe position on nuclear energy is that the central government is in charge of the issue (from a TV interview to the same Yoichi Masuzoe).
My understanding is that, if elected Tokyo governor, he is not going to do anything to reeuce the city dependency on nuclear energy (should any npp be restarted).

Chubu Electric is going to apply to the NRA for the inspection of its Hamaoka plant in view of restarting it after the completion of a 22m tall wall t...

Chubu Electric is going to apply to the NRA for the inspection of its Hamaoka plant in view of restarting it after the completion of a 22m tall wall that is expected to protect the plant from tsunami waves.
The Hamaoka plant is located very close to a highly sismical area. (source: NHK)
Some experts suspect that Fukushima was severely damaged by the earthquake itself.

Tokyo, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)-- TEPCO may have underestimated the amount of radioactive substances in 300 tons of contaminated water that spilled from a ...

Tokyo, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)-- TEPCO may have underestimated the amount of radioactive substances in 300 tons of contaminated water that spilled from a tank in summer last year at the Fukushima 1 npp, officials said Friday.
The NRA may have to revise its provisional assessment of the spill, now put at Level 3 on the INES scale of zero to 7, if the actual amount is far larger than has been announced, an official of the NRA Secretariat said.
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014020700939

Masuzoe thinks that nuclear energy is no business for Tokyo governor. Both he and his voters have possibly forgotten that, in a worst case scenario, T...

Masuzoe thinks that nuclear energy is no business for Tokyo governor. Both he and his voters have possibly forgotten that, in a worst case scenario, Tokyo would have to be evacuated as a consequence of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Such scenario is not that far fetched because the US military authorities indeed evacuated the families of their personnel stationed in Yokosuka, which is farther from Fukushima than Tokyo.

Record Cesium levels found by Tepco in water samples taken from a newly-dug well at the Fukushima 1 npp. On Thursday the utility said it had measured ...

Record Cesium levels found by Tepco in water samples taken from a newly-dug well at the Fukushima 1 npp. On Thursday the utility said it had measured 54,000 Bq/liter of Cs137 and 22,000 Bq/liter of Cs134.

Hakodate city says it is planning to sue the country and JPower in order to stop the construction of the Oma npp.
Hakodate is within a 30km radi...

Hakodate city says it is planning to sue the country and JPower in order to stop the construction of the Oma npp.
Hakodate is within a 30km radius from the plant. The Oma npp is a light water ABWR that is expected to burn MOX fuel that contains plutonium.

New radionuclides record levels found in groundwater at Fukushima 1: 37,000 becquerels of cesium-134 and 93,000 becquerels of cesium-137, TEPCO said. ...

New radionuclides record levels found in groundwater at Fukushima 1: 37,000 becquerels of cesium-134 and 93,000 becquerels of cesium-137, TEPCO said. The water also contained 260,000 becquerels of beta ray-emitting substances including strontium-90. Fukushima, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)
(http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014021400058)

Japan government to reduce support to solar energy: (from Jiji Press) Tokyo, Feb. 14th: Japan's industry ministry said Friday it will revoke its c...

Japan government to reduce support to solar energy: (from Jiji Press) Tokyo, Feb. 14th: Japan's industry ministry said Friday it will revoke its certification of solar power providers that have not started operations for months. Such operators will therefore not be able to sell electricity to power companies at relatively high fixed prices set by the government.
Such delays in the launch of operations would go against the purpose of the tariff system, industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi said.
Some certified solar power providers are apparently postponing the start of their operations while waiting for a decline in solar panel prices, sources familiar with the matter said.

It is late February and I went to our local beach in Southern California on a beautiful sunny day for a long walk with my lovely wife. We took lots of...

It is late February and I went to our local beach in Southern California on a beautiful sunny day for a long walk with my lovely wife. We took lots of photos like we always do and then it hit me, as the radioactive crap from the Fukushima disaster continues to pollute our Pacific Ocean this beautiful scene will soon be too toxic to visit!

I am not only outraged that the Japanese have such disregard for their own beautiful island nation but continue to screw around with the dire issues of containment, continuing accidental radioactive spillage, and permanent polluting the Pacific Ocean that I believe I will now set a campaign in motion that requires all those responsible for this continuing incompetence be tried as criminals! Not just for lying, polluting, and killing everyone but also for doing it with full knowledge of the level of damage they continue to inflict on the world!

Allow me to join the efforts to bring those responsible for the continuing Fukushima disaster to justice!

Dear Irishfisherman, thank you for your concern. Just to point out, most Japanese are not responsible for what has happened and many that carried some responsibility are ashamed of what they did before. Have a look at this: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-victims/blog/48279/

Next to that are those that don't want to learn: Many within TEPCO, PM Abe and his government, Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, but also GE, Westinghouse, Areva / EDF, Rosatom... A group of Japanese victims is taking GE, Hitachi and Toshiba to court - they only have a small chance, but let us hope that justice will prevail.

Continue to enjoy your beach walks, help closing Diablo Canyon in California - then other US plants. Should help saving the Pacific from more radioactive pollution.